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You are well taken care of, Countess, believe me." Margaret smiled at Uncle Horace's way of getting out of the difficulty, for she suspected him of knowing more than he would acknowledge. But all she could extract from him was that he knew Lord Fitzdoggin slightly, and that he believed the telegram to be perfectly genuine.
Your run on the prairies has done you good. Come," said she, leading him to the window, "it is a beautiful day. Let us go out." "By all means: but first I have some good news for you. Fitzdoggin has telegraphed me that Claudius I mean," he said, interrupting himself and blushing awkwardly, "I mean that it is all right, you know. They have arranged all your affairs beautifully."
At last she opened the telegram and uttered an exclamation of surprise. "What in the world does it mean?" she cried, and gave it to Miss Skeat, who held it close to the firelight. The message was from Lord Fitzdoggin, Her British Majesty's Ambassador at St.
Lord Fitzdoggin, I believe he is." "Good gracious!" exclaimed the peer; "what for?" "I am going there," answered Claudius with his habitual calm, "and I want to know somebody in power." "Oh! are you going?" asked the Duke, suddenly grasping the situation. He afterwards took some credit to himself for having been so quick to catch Claudius's meaning. "Yes. I sail on Wednesday."
Your English friend over there will give you letters to the English Ambassador; he is Lord Fitzdoggin cousin of the Duke's. And I will give you some papers that will be of use. I know lots of people in Petersburg. Why, it's as plain as a pikestaff. Besides, you know the proverb, mitte sapientem et nihil dicas. That means then when you send a wise man you must not dictate to him." "You flatter me.
Miss Skeat beamed with pleasure; for though she had been willing to make any sacrifice for Margaret, it would not have been an agreeable thing to be so very poor again. "I never met Lord Fitzdoggin," said Margaret, "and I do not understand in the least. Why should he, of all people, inform me of this, if it is really true?"
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